If the isolation technique is successful, it will be applied to investigate the role of ciliates in the food-web of costal Baltic Sea ecosystems. Isotope samples and fatty acid samples can be taken for ciliates and interrelate ciliates to other trophic levels.

Alfred Burian, Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Stockholm University

E-mail: alfred.burian@su.se

Research interests

The overall goal of my PhD is to investigate the effect of food quality on the structure of aquatic food-webs. Shifts in environmental conditions will lead to changes in food quantity and quality, strongly affecting predator-prey interactions.